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Trump Administration Seeks More Time To Reunify Migrant Families

Facing a court deadline to reunify separated families, the government says it needs more time to identify parents and reunite them with their children.

The Trump administration is asking a federal judge for an extension of the deadline set to reunify all of the migrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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